Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-06-22

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credfG fer reforms which shswouid have
prevented Il shs esul6 and for - al
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her rsthsT tAan beoazss Of bfr. hts-
tsTy viii always record she crest events
Of the psst bali century - having o.
earFed ip shs reign Of vietoris, and onay
The thinker vii ssmeuheT that they oe-
Cured IN q reign vita Which VistoFia
had lssa 70 do than ang slsstOs IN Crest
Britain.
II TIE iabiiss i rot in hanot q Vie
toFfa shs rDdividaaI. IL - certainly NOS
IL honor q TIE family which shs seVrs-
ssuts or The position which she holds.
TIE Hoass Of BFsnsviek has furnished
10 the British people - worthless line
Of soysssigns as lhe world has ever sesn-
George / and George II we're personia-
esiions Of sslHshnsss and s,aptdity.
George iii il noted f0E hisstubbosnness
aud for the fact that 70 that Stubborn
nasa IL due the permanent division Of
tie Anglo Saxon race. George Nv and
william " were assuredly not men
whom any people would care 70 honor.
victorfa, as has been said, is the best Of
Der race. and her exoeileoce consists 10
the fact that she realized her poweEisss-
nsss. Indsed. the Enelish Psopie have
no reason 10 honor any Of the monarehs
Who have ruled over them durisg THE
past three centuries. They have done
nothing 70 reflect credit opOn the peo-
pie whose representatives they we're.
william III, the only real monarch Who
has ruled Britain since the sixteenth
century. vas an adventureE WhOm the
people permitted to seize the throne
because Of The sheer Incompetence Of
The lawful ruler. With the Rlories OF
EneIand, Der monarchs have nothing 70
do. The names which she English pee
PIE reverence are not those OF their
Kings. All that has made the name Of
England great has been accomplished
By those who were not monarchs. IL
was Cromwell and Marlborough and
Wellington Who won EOeland's vic
tories on the field Of battle. Il was
Olive who made her the possessOr Of
India. II was Nelson Who defended her
empire on the seas. Il was Hampden,
Fox and Gladstone who made her name
synonymous with civil liberty. II was
Bacon and Locke and Hamilton and
Darwin aud Spencer Who made mani
fest the capabilities Of the Saxon mind.
II wAs Shakespeare and Milton and Ad-
Olson and Goldsmith and Scott and
Byron and Shelly aud Keats and Words
worth and Maeanlay and Thaekeray
aud Dickens and Tennyson who have
eariched English literature. Ne step
Ia the onward march has been doe to
The monarchs Of England.
IL IL Is neither Victoria nor her Office
that the English people are honorinR,
then, what IL it1 They are rejoicing
over the progress which they have
made during the fifty years Of Yistoria's
reign. They are rejoicing over the
wonderful strides which they have
taken toward all that makes q people
truly great. And they may well re-
iJice. The Great Britain Of to-day ID
A. different from the Great Britain Of
fifty years ago as light is different from
darkness. The nation has swept into
the fuller light Of the more modern day.
Old world traditions have been cast
aside. The steamship and the locomo.
tive have revolutionized Britain az
they are revolutioniziaR the world. The
Subtle web OF the telegraph has been
spun over the island. Tue franchise
has been extended TO the factory opera
tive and the laboreF. The power Of the
throne and the mobiles has grown less
and less, and that Of the people has
grown greater and greater. Over these
things and many others the English
people rejoice. The jubilee Is only
nominally In honor Of Victoria. Il is q
modern celebration, even If u does
wear costume Of the middle sRes, and
all the mammery that can be injected
into II can not alter the fact that IL Il
the rejoicing Of people over fifty years
OF prosperity and progress.